Quirky Xerus 8.6 (Aug. 16), Beaver 8.7.1 (Sept. 21), 2018

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Re: Quirky Xerus x86_64 8.1.6 released 14th January 2017

#401 Post by jd7654 »

ETP wrote: In your blog you asked for feedback on the "best" and hopefully small, video player for inclusion in the next minor-point release.

Without hesitation or reservation I would suggest mpv-0.1.4.0
+1 for MPV

I usually use VLC on full/large Linux distros. But on tiny/light Linux I always install MPV. Plays everything, is updated,(successor to Mplayer2) and most importantly, is very tiny. Installed and running fine here on Quirky Xerus 8.1.6 frugal.

Only thing is it lacks a fancy gui. But the current version has at least minimal on screen control/display.

My only beef with Xine is is that it doesn't want to display embedded subtitles in MP4 files, which is most of what I have. VLC and MPV both do.

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missing dependancy, but for what?

#402 Post by scsijon »

New partition and full install for 8.1.6. Time to update my racy551 (extended)

Thought i'd have a 'look around' before I start tweeking.

I,

- I can't run a .mp3, ok no xine, not a biggie
UPDATE: installed xine but can't find a "libcrystalhd3", anywhere in the repro's or by a search with ppm, the rest installed and works ok so maybe not now needed. UPDATE2 - No, it's needed for some AV dvd's and cd's, i'll have to hunt further.

- I had a look in /tmp/xerrs.log, and on the last line found the words "missing dependancy" (no quotes), no other info to help anyone either

- I need sdl2 for the latest version of a currently maintained RPG Engine i'm working with (i got bored and it's good and easy to code for), sdl1/libsdl1.2 ok, not sdl2 for the latest version, I have source so installed my favorite src2pkg, junk output on build so somethings wrong with something set relative to src2pkg, i'll follow this up with it's creator. UPDATE built and installed ok (i think) doing it the old fashion way (./configure,make,make install) just not src2pkg in the meantime

- I tried using PPM to d/l some packages and found they went to /root, ?how do I reset this please, as i expected at least /root/Downloads as before if not /file/Downloads

- there's a few others that were in my old puppy's and aren't just there anymore, something to sort and chase for me.

-UPDATE HMM.. problems with qt4 for tradietrakka, blast I need that for my business side, something to do with paths, something to work through, wonder if tuxta is still around

-UPDATE - found doing a cd <return> in a console moved me to /root, thought it would move me back to /file

-UPDATE2 - there is (at least) a missing build .h file called stubs-32.h in /usr/include/x86-64-linux-gnu/gnu, it's listed in stubs.h in the same directory, tried linking the stubs-64.h but that doesn't work, just errors the build out with other errors. I've a number of packages to build with x86_64 defined in their .config setting file but don't also mention LP64. A problem I think.

UPDATE3 - there is a link missing between /include/x86_64-linux-gnu/python2.7 to /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu (or maybe the python2.7 directory is in the wrong place.

Looks like i'll have to await 8.1.7 before building with this one.

regards to all

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#403 Post by srirakesh »

Hi linuxcbon
Quirky Xerus 8.1.6 for x86_64

- what is /lib/systemd/ for ?

- for rox , /root/Choices/ shoud be /root/.config/rox.sourceforge.net

- some useless folders :
/usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu -- empty
/usr/etc/ -- empty
/usr/games/ -- empty
/usr/local/share/ -- empty
/usr/lib/modules/ -- empty
the are not useless dirs but these directories are default dir for unix and linux historically /usr dir was meant for central storage of all user related commands so similarily all dirs under it has functionality as per their names.

Its true that people are of different opinions regarding "systemd" of using it or having a system with or without it, there is long debate going on and as you are aware that systemd is a suite of basic building blocks, so again historically the dir is still there.

Hope that I am able to clear your doubts as stated by you IMHO...
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#404 Post by srirakesh »

Hi,

I'm not able to run Xerus 8.1.6 for x86_64 from notebook ah532 using a flash stick made using 8gb image of it and it stucks at

Making file system usable....

I've disabled Secure Boot and also Fast Boot mode in UEFI BIOS setting still not able to boot it, I've tried Manjaro TuxnVape LXDE FINALE 02202017 latest release and it boots perfectly fine.

Somebody help me how to go about it and fi the issue.

Thanks in advance

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#405 Post by BarryK »

Hi guys,
After getting back from my holiday in India, I released Easy Linux 0.2 pre-alpha. This is built with exactly the same packages as Quirky 8.1.6, so many of the same issues apply.

I have been posting about some fixes in the Easy thread, that equally apply in this thread. For example, fixing galculator and vlc.

Easy thread:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=109958

Regarding stray systemd files, these do no harm, and in some cases will satisfy an operation requirement of an application, even though systemd is not used.
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Re: Quirky Xerus 8.1.6 for x86_64, released Jan. 13, 2017

#406 Post by BarryK »

ETP wrote:Bug report:

An intermittent issue present in this version and also in previous versions is a hang
at boot time with the message "Recognising media devices.....optical". Only a hard reboot
fixes the issue which I would say occurs about 5 to 10% of the time.

The text comes from the block of code starting at line 566 in rc.sysinit and my gut feeling
is that it is some kind of timing issue.
Yes, I have also had this problem. It has been going on for years, overdue to do something about it!

Looking at the code in rc.sysinit, there is only one line that could possibly hang:

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[ "$DVDTYPE" ] && hdparm -d1 /dev/$DVDTYPE >/dev/null 2>&1
So, have commented it out.
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Re: Quirky Xerus 8.1.6 for x86_64, released Jan. 13, 2017

#407 Post by BarryK »

ETP wrote:Certainly an issue but maybe a bug:

The set volume level is not preserved across reboots but always defaults to zero.
The config files seem to imply that it can be set but the mechanism to do so is
not working. Manually editing them also has no effect.

The included version of PNMixer (0.5.1) appears to date from 2011/12 and there have
been multiple releases since then. The latest version (0.7) was released on 18th Sept 2016.
Perhaps that has addressed this issue.

https://github.com/nicklan/pnmixer/releases

https://github.com/nicklan/pnmixer/wiki

EDIT 20th January 2017:
I note that pnmixer-0.6.1-1 is available in QPM
Have gone back to pizzasgood's retrovol.
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#408 Post by BarryK »

jd7654 wrote:
belham2 wrote: Also, the errors in init stage introduced in 8.1.6 live/frugal compared to 8.0 are still there:

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Making the filesystem usable...mv: cannot move '/var' to a subdirectory of itsel
f, '/root/.var'
rm: cannot remove '/var/local/lib': Directory not empty
rm: cannot remove '/var/local/pupdial': Directory not empty
I plan to do some testing of the frugal install, I have neglected it.

Anyway, that failed "mv" is fixed.
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Re: Galculator scientific calculator does not work

#409 Post by BarryK »

FeodorF wrote:The Galculator scientific calculator does not work. xerrs.log shows:
galculator: error while loading shared libraries: libquadmath.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Add up: Galculator works well in the Quirky SlaQ 8.1.6 x86_64 release; works fine in Xerus 8.0 final too. Used the .ISO for testing.
Fixed.
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Re: UrxvtSet setup terminal emulator does not work.

#410 Post by BarryK »

FeodorF wrote:Menu -> Desktop -> UrxvtSet setup terminal emulator does not work. xerrs.log:

Current Urxvt terminal settings
#000000000000
#f8f8f8f8f8f8
#ffff00000000
80x25
14
Nimbus Mono L:Regular
Off
85
Off
/usr/sbin/urxvtset: line 99: yad: command not found

Add up: Urxvt Setup - v0.5.1 works fine in Quirky Werewolf64-7.4; works fine in Xerus 8.0 final too. Used the .ISO for testing.
Yes, yad is missing from Quirky 8.1.6.
I left it out because the Ubuntu yad DEB is for gtk+3, and when I tried to compile it, got a compile fail.

Today I downloaded the latest, 0.39, and it compiled ok, so that is going into the next build.
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#411 Post by BarryK »

belham2 wrote: hwclock --hctosys --localtime #160427 from util-linux. assuming hw clock set to local

if grep -qw aufs /proc/filesystems; then
LAYERFS='aufs'
RO='=ro'
else
LAYERFS='overlay'
RO=''
fi


(put a "#" in front of each and every one of these lines, so the init script will ignore them).
This "fix" is a problem for me, as there is nothing apparently wrong with that code.

In fact, it is required, if there is going to be a choice of using aufs or overlay.
/proc/filesystems shows what filesystems the kernel supports.

I am wondering if there has been some confusion of the two. Maybe aufs used when creating the savefile, then at bootup it wants to use overlay. Which I don't see as a problem anyway.

I can't recall when I was using aufs. The kernel in Xerus x86_64 8.1.6
only has overlay. So, that code will always generate "LAYERFS=overlay", which is fine.

Well, I am going to compile a kernel, maybe 4.12.x, and again, will not have aufs in it. I will do testing of frugal and savefile, make sure it works.
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#412 Post by BarryK »

BarryK wrote:
belham2 wrote: Also, the errors in init stage introduced in 8.1.6 live/frugal compared to 8.0 are still there:

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Making the filesystem usable...mv: cannot move '/var' to a subdirectory of itsel
f, '/root/.var'
rm: cannot remove '/var/local/lib': Directory not empty
rm: cannot remove '/var/local/pupdial': Directory not empty
I plan to do some testing of the frugal install, I have neglected it.

Anyway, that failed "mv" is fixed.
Major progress. I am not surprised that you had trouble with live-CD and frugal saved-session, etc.

I found one bug, in the 'init' script in the initramfs, when booting from live-CD. The path was wrong when using overlay filesystem instead of aufs.

But then I hit a major show-stopper. I discovered that overlay filesystem is broken. This is for a simple two-layer, /dev/zram0 on read-write layer (with ext2 f.s.) and q.sfs on bottom read-only layer.
A simple "rm -rf foldername" fails.

I reported this on my blog. Googled and found this to be a problem with overlay for years, put one link into my post:
http://barryk.org/news/?viewDetailed=00591

Aaaargggghhh! The kernel in Quirky Xerus64 8.1.6 has a broken overlayfs!

I have recompiled the 4.11.9 kernel patched for aufs, and now the live-CD/frugal save-session works perfectly. Those errors you have reported at bootup have disappeared. "rm" now works.

I got lulled, thinking that overlay is now mature. But it, and btrfs, should be moved out to "staging"!

There are more tests to do, hope to have 8.2-RC (or a beta) out soon.
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#413 Post by linuxcbon »

Hi,

I am still downloading.
I told you that xine was the best :) Why nobody listens to me ? LOL.

Is this corrected this in ppm ?

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/usr/local/petget/installpreview.sh: line 101: [: 13757: unary operator expected
 if [ $SIZEVALx2 -ge $SIZEFREEK ];then

/usr/local/petget/installpreview.sh: line 311: [: 25350: unary operator expected
[ $testSIZEK -gt $SIZEFREEK ]
- /etc/xdg/templates/_root_.jwmrc
has too many obsolete entries like : Gaim xmms

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#414 Post by BarryK »

A new version! About time too! :D

I have uploaded Quirky Xerus 8.1.94, for PCs with 64-bit CPUs.
This is a beta release, the final will be 8.2.

At this stage, I can't find any fault with it, but I am sure issues will be found.

Lots of updates and bug fixes. But the biggest fix is dumping of overlay filesystem and return to aufs.

Here is my blog announcement:

http://barryk.org/news/?viewDetailed=00593

Testers invited, feedback is welcome!

And one question: is there still interest in a 32-bit build?
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#415 Post by linuxcbon »

See my post just before.

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#416 Post by musher0 »

BarryK wrote:A new version! About time too! :D

I have uploaded Quirky Xerus 8.1.94, for PCs with 64-bit CPUs.
This is a beta release, the final will be 8.2.

At this stage, I can't find any fault with it, but I am sure issues will be found.

Lots of updates and bug fixes. But the biggest fix is dumping of overlay filesystem and return to aufs.

Here is my blog announcement:

http://barryk.org/news/?viewDetailed=00593

Testers invited, feedback is welcome!

And one question: is there still interest in a 32-bit build?
Thanks for this, Mr. Kauler. Downloading now.

In answer to your question:
I, for one, would be interested in a 32-bit build.
TIA.
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#417 Post by musher0 »

Hello, Mr. Kauler.

I was unsuccessful booting from a directory on sda1. Various infos follow.
IHTH.

Best regards.

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I hope you can make sense of the following snapshots. The main thing
seems to be that the boot process cannot find /sbin/init, which provokes
a kernel panic.

IMG_0195.JPGImage

IMG_0196.JPGImage

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This is the tree of the directory it's in:

[/initrd/mnt/dev_save]>tree -fish xerus64Quirky-8.1.94/
xerus64Quirky-8.1.94
[2.0K] xerus64Quirky-8.1.94/boot.cat
[ 86] xerus64Quirky-8.1.94/boot.msg
[8.0M] xerus64Quirky-8.1.94/efiboot.img
[ 577] xerus64Quirky-8.1.94/help.msg
[1.2M] xerus64Quirky-8.1.94/initrd.q
[ 24K] xerus64Quirky-8.1.94/isolinux.bin
[ 141] xerus64Quirky-8.1.94/isolinux.cfg
[4.0K] xerus64Quirky-8.1.94/lance
[114K] xerus64Quirky-8.1.94/ldlinux.c32
[8.8K] xerus64Quirky-8.1.94/logo.16
[4.2M] xerus64Quirky-8.1.94/vmlinuz

The q.sfs file being at /initrd/mnt/dev_save/q.sfs,
but the result was the same with the q.sfs file inside the
/initrd/mnt/dev_save/xerus64Quirky-8.1.94 folder.

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This is the notebook I tried it on:

H/W path Device Class Description
================================================
system HP Compaq 6715b (RK156AV) (RK156AV)
/0 bus 30C2
/0/0 memory 128KiB BIOS
/0/4 processor AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-52
/0/4/5 memory 128KiB L1 cache
/0/4/6 memory 512KiB L2 cache
/0/a memory 4GiB System Memory
/0/a/0 memory 2GiB SODIMM DDR2 Synchronous 667 MHz (1,5 ns)
/0/a/1 memory 2GiB SODIMM DDR2 Synchronous 667 MHz (1,5 ns)
/0/100 bridge RS690 Host Bridge
/0/100/1 bridge RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (Internal gfx)
/0/100/1/5 display RS690M [Radeon Xpress 1200/1250/1270]
/0/100/4 bridge Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
/0/100/4/0 eth0 network NetLink BCM5787M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express
/0/100/5 bridge RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (PCI Express Port 1)
/0/100/12 storage SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA
/0/100/13 bus SB600 USB (OHCI0)
/0/100/13.1 bus SB600 USB (OHCI1)
/0/100/13.2 bus SB600 USB (OHCI2)
/0/100/13.3 bus SB600 USB (OHCI3)
/0/100/13.4 bus SB600 USB (OHCI4)
/0/100/13.5 bus SB600 USB Controller (EHCI)
/0/100/14 bus SBx00 SMBus Controller
/0/100/14.1 storage SB600 IDE
/0/100/14.2 multimedia SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
/0/100/14.3 bridge SB600 PCI to LPC Bridge
/0/100/14.4 bridge SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
/0/100/14.4/4 bridge RL5c476 II
/0/100/14.4/4.1 bus R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller
/0/101 bridge K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
/0/102 bridge K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
/0/103 bridge K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
/0/104 bridge K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
/1 scsi6 storage
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Quirky Xerus 8.1.94 for x86_64, released July 13, 2017

#418 Post by Billtoo »

I burned the iso to a DVD and ran the installer to a 32gb flash drive.

Computer
Processor 4x Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
Memory 8183MB (124MB used)
Machine Type Physical machine
Operating System Quirky Xerus64
User Name root (root)
Date/Time Thu Jul 13 15:12:31 2017
Display
Resolution 1920x1080 pixels
OpenGL Renderer Gallium 0.4 on NVC1
X11 Vendor The X.Org Foundation
Audio Devices
Audio Adapter HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
Audio Adapter HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia

I'm going to download the devx and kernel sources then see if I can
install the proprietary Nvidia driver.

So far have installed Firefox and a few kde games with QPM.

Thanks.

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#419 Post by linuxcbon »

musher0 wrote:Hello, Mr. Kauler.
I was unsuccessful booting from a directory on sda1. Various infos follow.
IHTH.
Best regards.
I had no problem to boot.
Can you describe the exact steps of your installation ?
Is it full or frugal ?
To hard disk or usb stick ?
What commands or steps did you use to install ?
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#420 Post by belham2 »

Wow, Barry (are we still allowed to say "wow" on murga---haha :D ) I know I've only been using your creations since the first Precise-5.7 came out some years ago, but out of everything you've done up-to-date, I believe this Quirky is hands down the most beautiful-themed/icon/colours of any of your creations. Add in the fact that "frugal" installing it worked right away, recognizing my dual monitors, and stuff I added like qupzilla, redshift-gui, tas, conkytoggle-switch, iqpuzzle and also the stuff added from PPM (PPM has worked great so far) like qiv (for conky transparency), sakura terminal, and dreamchess....well, I think I am in love again with Quirky. :) Congrats!

Will keep testing this the next few weeks----so far, I can't find a thing wrong with it & that's saying something as I usually crashed all the previous Quirky/Werewolfs/etc by now. :wink:
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